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Originally posted: January 7, 2008
Bad dialogue kills 'One Tree Hill'
Posted at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7
The whiny bunch of "One Tree Hill": Lee Norris as Mouth (left to right), Antwon Tanner as Skills, Sophia Bush as Brooke, Chad Michael Murray as Lucas, Hilarie Burton as Peyton, James Lafferty as Nathan and Bethany Joy Galeotti as Haley.
"One Tree Hill" is like a hot date who isn't very bright: it's best seen and not heard.
Exhibit A from the CW drama's 2-hour season premiere Tuesday:
"What happened to us? I don't know who I am any more or how I got here. I miss who I used to be," laments former Tree Hiller Peyton (Hilarie Burton). "I want to have a home again. And real friends. The kind of friendships we used to believe in."
Shut up already.
You know a show's in trouble when it relies on crappy dialogue to explain what's going on ("Clothes Over Bro's is a multi-million dollar company...") or to preach an "important" message ("Anorexia is a disease. It is not a fashion statement.").
The discourse here is so dead it makes you wish for yet another song-filled scene in which no one speaks. But if you added a few more of those to "One Tree Hill," all you'd have is a music video.
The big twist for Season 5 has the pretty grads of Tree Hill High School transported 4 1/2 years into the future. Apparently none of this angst-ridden crew has been happy since graduation, despite some great successes:
Creator Mark Schwahn has said he skipped the college years to avoid improbably sending all the characters to the same university.
It's just as unlikely that all these miserable mopes would come back to Tree Hill, N.C., which is how the depressing, over-written plot seems to be playing out.
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